Biden suffers humiliating blow as infighting derails key vote

Oct 01, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    78% Extremely Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    20% Somewhat Conservative

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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"The legislation provides two years of free community college for all students."
Positive
20% Conservative
"The plan includes $3 billion for 'tree equity', $12 billion for electric cars, $1 billion more to turn government facilities into 'high-performance green buildings' and millions more for gender identity and bias training."
Positive
4% Conservative
"The bill includes $25 billion for non-profits to provide 'anti-discrimination and bias training' in health care."
Positive
0% Conservative
"The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the tax changes spearheaded by Democrats would raise more than $2 trillion in revenue over 10 years, with roughly $1 trillion in tax increases from high-income Americans and nearly $1 trillion from corporate and international tax reforms."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Critics have already seized on one of its most controversial measures: An extra $79 billion for the Internal Revenue Service over the next decade to expand audits and strengthen enforcement."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"But progressives, who find themselves with growing leverage, said they would vote against it unless there was progress on the bigger package that would raise taxes on America's wealthiest to pay for social care, free education and other of Biden's domestic priorities."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"Biden has promised he won't raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000, but Republicans insist that simply won't happen."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"BIDEN'S $3.5T BUILD BACK BETTER PLAN:"
Positive
18% Conservative
"The two Democratic holdouts posed for a picture on Thursday morning as Sinema said talks had been productiveEven after the delay was aounced, Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a key moderate, said talks would continue later into the night."
Positive
16% Conservative
"The two Democratic holdouts posed for a picture on Thursday morning as Sinema said talks had been productiveEven after the delay was aounced, Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a key moderate, said talks would continue later into the night."
Positive
16% Conservative
"Thursday, September 30, 2021Democratic Rep Josh Gottheimer, a key moderate leader, said the night was far from over"
Positive
12% Conservative
"President Biden spoke to Republicans during a visit to the Congressional baseball game on Wednesday as part of his effort to keep spending plans on track"
Positive
12% Conservative
"The text of the Build Back Better Act, released by Democrats on the House Budget Committee over the weekend, for the first time reveals how President Biden's allies plan to spend a whopping $3.5 trillion."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Biden spoke to Republicans and Democrats during a visit to the Congressional baseball game on Wednesday evening"
Positive
8% Conservative
"That money would be used to partially fund Biden's $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation plan."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had plaed to bring a vote on the bipartisan bill to rebuild roads and bridges on Thursday evening."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, a leader of House progressives, told reporters: 'Nothing has changed with our caucus members."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"'There's so much more to do,' said Biden."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The legislation would also spend billions of dollars to tackle climate change, including President Biden's proposed 'Climate Change Corps.'"
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Sen. Joe Manchin 'fundamentally unserious' for saying he could only support a $1.5 trillion spending bill - $2 trillion less than Biden's proposalSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (Democrat of California) is joined by House Democrats as she signs a House continuing resolution to keep funding the government, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC,"
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Sen. Joe Manchin 'fundamentally unserious' for saying he could only support a $1.5 trillion spending bill - $2 trillion less than Biden's proposalSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (Democrat of California) is joined by House Democrats as she signs a House continuing resolution to keep funding the government, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC,"
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Sen. Joe Manchin 'fundamentally unserious' for saying he could only support a $1.5 trillion spending bill - $2 trillion less than Biden's proposalSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (Democrat of California) is joined by House Democrats as she signs a House continuing resolution to keep funding the government, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC,"
Negative
-12% Liberal
"How the Biden administration plans to pay for it"
Negative
-12% Liberal
"It leaves Biden's $3.5 trillion social spending bill and $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan at the mercy of warring progressives and moderates."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"A day of private negotiations and public mudslinging ended shortly before 11pm as Biden's congressional lieutenants called off the House vote."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"The result was Biden's own party digging in to halt almost his entire domestic policy agenda."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"right now when we are seeing from the conservative side and the small cadre of people is a fundamentally unserious pattern of negotiation,' Ocasio-Cortez told ABC News."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"'This is how democracy works,' she said during her daily briefing before aiming a dig at former President Donald Trump."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Democratic leaders are struggling to get centrists including Senator Kyrsten Sinema behind President Biden's $2.5 trillion spending plan."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Democratic leaders are struggling to get centrists including Senator Kyrsten Sinema behind President Biden's $2.5 trillion spending plan."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"With the two wings of the Democratic Party apparently at war, the White House tried to play down the idea that Biden was not in control of his own party."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Sanders blasted the idea that an agreement could be reached with the clock ticking down."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Along with Manchin, her opposition threatens to derail Biden's entire domestic policy agenda although she has not set out public red line"
Negative
-32% Liberal
"The White House issued a photograph of President Biden signing a bill to avert government shutdown on Thursday rather than inviting press cameras to witness the moment as he and officials battle to stave off an embarrassing setback to his domestic policy agenda"
Negative
-36% Liberal
"President Biden suffered an embarrassing setback for his multitrillion dollar spending plans on Thursday night as Democrats abandoned a vote in Congress on his infrastructure bill amid a looming party civil war."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"But progressives, who find themselves with growing leverage, said they would vote against it unless there was progress on the bigger package that would raise taxes on America's wealthiest to pay for social care, free education and other of Biden's domestic priorities."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Biden has promised he won't raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000, but Republicans insist that simply won't happen."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"White House officials met with Manchin, along with Senator Kyrsten Sinema and socialist Bernie Sanders in the evening to thrash out a deal."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"White House officials met with Manchin, along with Senator Kyrsten Sinema and socialist Bernie Sanders in the evening to thrash out a deal."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush blasted him for now demanding that Democrats trim the bill after backing an earlier version of the massive package."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush blasted him for now demanding that Democrats trim the bill after backing an earlier version of the massive package."
Negative
-52% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The legislation provides two years of free community college for all students.
52% : The plan includes $3 billion for 'tree equity', $12 billion for electric cars, $1 billion more to turn government facilities into 'high-performance green buildings' and millions more for gender identity and bias training.
50% : The bill includes $25 billion for non-profits to provide 'anti-discrimination and bias training' in health care.
50% : The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the tax changes spearheaded by Democrats would raise more than $2 trillion in revenue over 10 years, with roughly $1 trillion in tax increases from high-income Americans and nearly $1 trillion from corporate and international tax reforms.
45% : Critics have already seized on one of its most controversial measures: An extra $79 billion for the Internal Revenue Service over the next decade to expand audits and strengthen enforcement.
27% : But progressives, who find themselves with growing leverage, said they would vote against it unless there was progress on the bigger package that would raise taxes on America's wealthiest to pay for social care, free education and other of Biden's domestic priorities.
27% : Biden has promised he won't raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000, but Republicans insist that simply won't happen.

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